10-letter words containing n, o, t, a, b
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- geobotanic — phytogeography.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernator — a governor
- habitation — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- iceboating — the sport of using an iceboat
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country
- incubation — the act or process of incubating.
- incubators — Plural form of incubator.
- incubatory — the act or process of incubating.
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- intubation — to insert a tube into (the larynx or the like).
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- job action — any means, as a work slowdown, of organized protest or pressure by employees to win some goal or gain from their employers.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- jubilation — a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation: Their jubilation subsided when they lost the second game.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- monostable — (of an electric or electronic circuit) having only one stable state.
- mont blanc — Jean Joseph Charles Louis [zhahn zhaw-zef sharl lwee] /ʒɑ̃ ʒɔˈzɛf ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), 1811–82, French socialist and historian.
- montbretia — a widely cultivated plant of the African iridaceous genus Crocosmia, a cross between C. aurea and C. pottsii, with ornamental orange or yellow flowers, grown mostly as pot plants
- mount bona — a mountain in S Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5005 m (16 420 ft)
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- narrowboat — A canal boat less than 7 feet (2.1 m) wide with a maximum length of 70 feet (21.3 m) and steered with a tiller rather than a wheel.
- negotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- nobilitate — (obsolete) To make noble; to ennoble; to exalt.
- non-combat — not including, entailing, or requiring combat: noncombat duty.
- noncabinet — not related to or belonging to a government cabinet
- nonpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- nontaxable — capable of being taxed; subject to tax: a taxable gain.
- nontobacco — not containing tobacco; tobacco-free
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- notability — the state or quality of being notable; distinction; prominence.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- noticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.